A Behind The Scenes Look At "Saturday Night"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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"Saturday Night" had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Jason Reitman and Gil Keenan's screenplay, the real-time editing of the film's narrative, and the performances from the ensemble cast, which consists of primarily young and up and coming talent in Hollywood. Director and co-writer Jason Reitman, along with members of the film's crew, were all kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. First, we have Daniel Howat's interview with Reitman, followed by his conversation with Production Designer Jess Gonchor, then we have Will Mavity's interview with Film Editors Nathan Orloff and Shane Reid, followed by his interview with Re-Recording Mixer and Supervising Sound Editor Will Files. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to rent digitally from Sony Pictures and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards in all eligible categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director and co-writer for Saturday Night, Jason Reitman, followed by his interview with the film's production designer, Jess Gonshore.
0:15.2	Then we have Will Mavity's interview with the film's editors, Nathan Orloff and Shane Reed, followed by his interview of the
0:22.2	re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor, Will Files. We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes
0:28.1	look at Saturday night. Okay, let's see if we can get through one of these skits.
0:32.2	Sketches. Baby, please.
0:33.6	Okay. You ready to kind of work? Oh!
0:35.6	Look it!
0:36.6	What! What! Let's break your fucking stop! Please. Okay. Okay. Do we go again? I hope you're doing well.
0:51.3	I hope you're doing well.
0:52.3	I am an S&L obsessive like so many of us are.
0:56.0	Saturday was exactly the film that I hope for.
0:58.0	So I appreciate you taking the time to tell me more about it today.
1:02.0	Certainly.
1:03.0	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:04.0	Well, I've heard you say in other interviews that you sort of became a journalist for this film talking with everyone
1:12.3	who's still alive from this era. With biopics and films depicting real events, there's always
1:17.6	this balance between imitation, you know, like imitating the thing, as opposed to finding the
1:23.4	essence of the real thing. How did you find the balance of that, making it look right, but also
1:27.3	feel right? It's a great question. And look, yes, Gilkin and I made our own feeble attempts
1:32.9	at being journalists, which was way harder than I ever possibly could have imagined. And that
1:37.9	moment of interviewing someone when they're going on a 10-minute story that you already know,
1:43.2	and it's like, how do you get them off that story,
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